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Originally Posted by Sweetbaby Jesus
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weekly or bi weekly repops would be great but no 24 hour announcement, that gives too much prep time. I think they should do it totally random and just throw up the ol server coming down in 15 minutes spam. Also I still vote for the removal of variance, its not gonna happen but I still think it would be the best way to go.
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It's hard to disagree with you since the vibe of this thread seems to be pretty defeatist regarding elimination of variance, but I don't understand why.
This is a classic server. No variance is classic. Variance has broken the raid scene.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying matters, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the solution is to revert to classic and eliminate non-classic variance. The poop-socking wars between IB and DA are ancient history, and regardless, that problem could and should have been solved with much less drastic measures. The implementation of variance was firing napalm to get rid of termites.
People are poop-socking raid mobs with no variance? There's a solution to that. FTE means you can sit there all damn day waiting if you want, it's not going to help your odds. There goes socking.
People are trying to rules lawyer regarding FTE? There's a solution to that, too. Here's FTE-shout. Ninja loot or steal a mob without an FTE-shout in your favor and you're suspended.
People are snagging FTE-shout without a legitimate raid force? Yessir! We've got a solution for that, too: tough luck. Let them die and FD/camp to clear aggro if necessary, then get next FTE-shout and go to town. If you keep snagging each others' FTE-shouts without legitimate raid forces to take down the mob, cool. Waste each others' time, that's not of GM concern. See above for rules regarding stealing someone else's FTE-shout. Maybe eventually you'll settle on a rotation so you don't have to play footsy with FTE-shouts all night.
Can anyone explain why that wouldn't work? GMs wouldn't need to spend more than 10 seconds on any raid dispute. Who got FTE-shout on the kill, and who looted? If they don't match, the looter is suspended. Easy and transparent, no room for rules lawyering.
And most importantly, totally classic -- with the simple addition of FTE-shout for GM convenience.